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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:23:09 -0700
From: Dave Pifke <dave@birthdayalarm.com>
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: Question about buffer usage
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Andrew Morton wrote:

 > It could be a JFS quirk - I don't know much about JFS.  It'd be 
interesting
 > to know if other filesystems behave in a similar manner.

I have two more machines on order, so perhaps I'll try a different 
filesystem on them and report back if it makes a difference.

 > One thing you could do is to (re)mount the filesystems with `-o noatime'.

I probably should have mentioned that this is already the case.

 > That should release _some_ of the blockdev pagecache, but not a lot, I
 > expect.  Maybe JFS is just metadata-intensive..

There appears to be a jfs-discussion mailing list on SourceForge; I'll 
try asking there.


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Dave Pifke, dave@bebo.com
Sr. System Administrator, www.bebo.com
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